Wednesday, May 26, 2010

The lights went out in the fourth inning at Wrigley Field Wednesday night, but the Dodgers had brought the curtain down much earlier that evening, scoring five runs in the first two innings to give Chad Billingsley (5.1 IP, 10 H, 3 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 6 Ks) some breathing room in which to operate. Casey Blake went 2-for-5 with 2 RBI and a solo HR, and James Loney was a HR short of the cycle, having gone 3-for-5 with an RBI. Jonathan Broxton earned a five-out save, entering with one out and a runner on first and getting Ryan Theriot to hit into an inning-ending double play, and then had a 1-2-3 ninth to seal the win.

Padres and Giants are each still in play in their respective games this evening, but second place was secure for us irrespective. Let's see if we can pick a game up pending these outcomes.

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Cards and Padres still scoreless in the middle of the sixth. What the hell happened to the Cardinals? I thought they were vying for first place, but apparently they don't care (the Cards werre shut out 1-0 yesterday to SD).

I had to drive home right about the time the power outage occurred (at Wrigley, not the Phiwwies offence), and then ended up starting from the beginning on Tivo so I could take in the whole game. So missed the rest of the GT. However, reading back over, I note what has to be the line of the night re the outage. It comes to us from Karina: